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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Intellectually Lazy Non-Voting Citizens Suck

“It’s all the same and it’s all meaningless.” If they cared
enough to have one, it would be the battle cry of the apathetic non-voter. These
are the people who are too lazy to differentiate between sides, too
intentionally ignorant to look at issues, and too stupid to understand that
their servile indifference equates to rabid support of this country’s problems.

They have help, of course, in the form of a mass media which
refuses to face facts and cannot resist allowing their biases and opinions to
molest straight news stories. The dichotomy between what people perceive and
what passes for news is so great that they believe neither.

Surprise! In “The Information Age” it’s harder to get facts
than it was sixty years ago. The pablum in the press is provided by people who
are no longer interested in truth and whose idea of morality extends to “their
side” winning the next election. Call it “situational morality” or the Left’s
mantra “the ends justify the means” but nihilism is winning the day. The denial
of great truths about the intrinsic value of life and liberty are common – in every
sense of the word.

The mainstream media kowtows to power, especially statist
and Leftist power, and can’t seem to ask straightforward questions that affect
our future. In the face of blatant lies that defy all logic, the press simply
smooths its skirts and looks vaguely embarrassed but can’t seem to remember why
it should feel shame or humiliation.

Let me remind them of why they should be mortified to their
non-existent cores. They have one duty – a duty that in any type of republic or
democracy is sacred – the simple duty to tell the complete truth and they have
failed wretchedly. Not the “shaded truth” or the “enhanced truth” or the “uninformed
truth” but the simple, straightforward truth. The face of Journalism should be
put on a milk carton because it is missing and hasn't been seen in years.

Without the truth, an uninformed public will vote in
ignorance – and the intellectually lazy will not vote at all – and the result
will be what we now have: an indebted, dishonest, unchecked, power-hungry government
and a leadership without a moral compass.

You have a duty to become informed and to then inform your
neighbor.

Our government only works if the people demand truth from
their government and the press. We have failed to do either for years and if we
save this country it will be because we willfully and consciously choose to do
so.

The defining moment of this millennium will be when we
ultimately succeed or ultimately fail to reach both the pathetic and the
apathetic. Liberty hangs in the balance. If you are a mere spectator then we
shall lose our freedom and our fates shall be decided by those who are the
ultimate whores for power.

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